Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Responsible for leading the successful delivery of projects including software development, infrastructure, and/or business initiatives. Experience Level: Minimum of 10 years

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience leading projects and teams to execute highly complex initiatives of significant scope, scale, and risk to successfully deliver project objectives and benefits.
• Solid project management expertise including working knowledge of various methodologies/frameworks including waterfall, agile, scaled agile (SAFe) and hybrid.
• Demonstrated ability leading multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to facilitate effective meetings, clearly convey information, influence when necessary, share and draw knowledge and ideas from others, and communicate well across all levels of the organization.
• Sound problem solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities to meet deadlines.
• Self-starter with an ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and manage ambiguity.
• Thrive in a team environment and work well with others.
• Adept at navigating and collaborating in a matrixed environment.
• Results oriented and bias for action.
• Solid working knowledge of MS Office Suite including MS Project, MS Project Server, SharePoint, MS Teams, MS Word, MS Excel and other tools such as Jira & Jira Align.

Responsibilities:

• Lead cross-functional project teams to successfully deliver project objectives and benefits.
• Provide project management leadership through project governance, roles and responsibilities, effective planning, and project execution excellence.
• Lead and facilitate cross-functional teams in defining and tracking project goals, milestones, deliverables, resources, budget, and schedule.
• Manage stakeholders and motivate project team to maintain a high level of engagement.
• Identify and manage areas of risk and dependencies including contingency planning.
• Provide timely and transparent communications on status, risks, and issues.
• Ensure adherence to and support of BCBSA project guidelines, IT security & risk controls, and regulatory requirements.